Adam, Eve and The Birth of Envy | Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

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When you're alone in the world, and there's no one else to look at, so seemingly this doesn't exist. The idea of letting someone else take away your happiness doesn't exist. The idea of seeing what they have and wanting it and letting it detract from your satisfaction in what you have. So they didn't have this test. So seemingly they lived in a world that we don't that we don't live in. Or we live in a world that they didn't live in. And there's no correlation between our challenges. Hashem understood for Adam and Eve that don't have anyone else in their world,

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1. 0:00When you're alone in the world, and there's no one else to look at, so seemingly…
2. 0:31by taking one of the things that I have created and taking it away from them,…
3. 1:01can't have cuz it belongs to someone else.…

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